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2 Chronicles
Chapter 1
2 Chronicles 1:1
1 ¶ AND Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD
his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
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2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of
the fathers.
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3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that
[was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which
Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
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4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to [the place
which] David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
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5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had
made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation
sought unto it.
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6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which [was]
at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings
upon it.
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7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall
give thee.
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8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father,
and hast made me to reign in his stead.
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9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou
hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
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10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this
people: for who can judge this thy people, [that is so] great?
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11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not
asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast
asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou
mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
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12 Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and
wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that [have been] before
thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
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13 ¶ Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place that [was] at Gibeon
to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over
Israel.
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14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four
hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot
cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as stones, and
cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.
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16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's
merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
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17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred
[shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they
out [horses] for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by
their means.
Chapter 2
2 Chronicles 2:1
1 ¶ AND Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an
house for his kingdom.
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2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and
fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to
oversee them.
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3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with
David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell
therein, [even so deal with me].
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4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to
him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread,
and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] for
ever to Israel.
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5 And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God above all gods.
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6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens
cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only
to burn sacrifice before him?
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7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in
brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to
grave with the cunning men that [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom
David my father did provide.
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8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I
know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my
servants [shall be] with thy servants,
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9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to
build [shall be] wonderful great.
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10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty
thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and
twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
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11 ¶ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon,
Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.
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12 Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven
and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and
understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his
kingdom.
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13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my
father's,
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14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of
Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and
in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave
any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him,
with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
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15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord
hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
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16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will
bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to
Jerusalem.
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17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel,
after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were
found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens,
and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and
six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
Chapter 3
2 Chronicles 3:1
1 ¶ THEN Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount
Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David
had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth
year of his reign.
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3 Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of
the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] threescore
cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
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4 And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was]
according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an
hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
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5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine
gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
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6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was]
gold of Parvaim.
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7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and
the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
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8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof [was] according to the
breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and
he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.
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9 And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the
upper chambers with gold.
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10 ¶ And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and
overlaid them with gold.
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11 And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of the
one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other
wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
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12 And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of
the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of
the other cherub.
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13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they
stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.
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14 And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and
wrought cherubims thereon.
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15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and
the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.
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16 And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the
pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.
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17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and
the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and
the name of that on the left Boaz.
Chapter 4
2 Chronicles 4:1
1 ¶ MOREOVER he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and
twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
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2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass,
and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it
round about.
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3 And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about:
ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast,
when it was cast.
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4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking
toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward
the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts
[were] inward.
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5 And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work
of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held three
thousand baths.
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6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left,
to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed
in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.
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7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set [them]
in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
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8 He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple, five on the right
side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
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9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors
for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
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10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
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11 ¶ And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram
finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
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12 [To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters [which were] on
the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the
chapiters which [were] on the top of the pillars;
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13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on
each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which [were] upon the
pillars.
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14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
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15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
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16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their
instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD
of bright brass.
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17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between
Succoth and Zeredathah.
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18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the
brass could not be found out.
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19 And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden
altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread [was set];
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20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the
manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
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21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he of] gold, [and] that
perfect gold;
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22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure
gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy
[place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were of] gold.
Chapter 5
2 Chronicles 5:1
1 ¶ THUS all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished:
and Solomon brought in [all] the things that David his father had dedicated; and
the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of
the house of God.
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2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes,
the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up
the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.
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3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the
feast which [was] in the seventh month.
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4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
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5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all
the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the
Levites bring up.
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6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto
him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor
numbered for multitude.
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7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place,
to the oracle of the house, into the most holy [place, even] under the wings of
the cherubims:
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8 For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and
the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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9 And they drew out the staves [of the ark], that the ends of the staves were
seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there
it is unto this day.
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10 [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put [therein]
at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they
came out of Egypt.
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11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place]:
(for all the priests [that were] present were sanctified, [and] did not [then]
wait by course:
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12 Also the Levites [which were] the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of
Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, [being] arrayed in white linen,
having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and
with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
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13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] as one, to make
one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up
[their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and
praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;
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14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for
the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
Chapter 6
2 Chronicles 6:1
1 ¶ THEN said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
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2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling
for ever.
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3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel:
and all the congregation of Israel stood.
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4 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands
fulfilled [that] which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
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5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose
no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might
be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
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6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen
David to be over my people Israel.
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7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of
the LORD God of Israel.
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8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to
build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
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9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come
forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
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10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am
risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as
the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of
Israel.
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11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant of the LORD, that he
made with the children of Israel.
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12 ¶ And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
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13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits
broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon
it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of
Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
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14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee in the heaven,
nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and [shewest] mercy unto thy servants,
that walk before thee with all their hearts:
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15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast
promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thine
hand, as [it is] this day.
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16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father
that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my
sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to
their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
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17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast
spoken unto thy servant David.
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18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the
heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have
built!
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19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication,
O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth
before thee:
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20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place
whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto
the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
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21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people
Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling
place, [even] from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
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22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him
swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
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23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the
wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the
righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
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24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they
have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and
make supplication before thee in this house;
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25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel,
and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their
fathers.
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26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned
against thee; [yet] if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and
turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
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27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy
people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should
walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an
inheritance.
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28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting,
or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities
of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:
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29 [Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or
of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own
grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
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30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto
every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only
knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
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31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the
land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
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32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is
come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy
stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
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33 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling place, and do
according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the
earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as [doth] thy people Israel, and may
know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
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34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt
send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and
the house which I have built for thy name;
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35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and
maintain their cause.
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36 If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which sinneth not,) and thou
be angry with them, and deliver them over before [their] enemies, and they carry
them away captives unto a land far off or near;
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37 Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried
captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We
have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
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38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the
land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray
toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and [toward] the city
which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
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39 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling place, their prayer
and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which
have sinned against thee.
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40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and [let] thine ears
[be] attent unto the prayer [that is made] in this place.
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41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of
thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let
thy saints rejoice in goodness.
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42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of
David thy servant.
Chapter 7
2 Chronicles 7:1
1 ¶ NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven,
and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD
filled the house.
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2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory
of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
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3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory
of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground
upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is]
good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
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4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
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5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an
hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the
house of God.
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6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of
musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because
his mercy [endureth] for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the
priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
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7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that [was] before the house
of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to
receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
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8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with
him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of
Egypt.
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9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the
dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
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10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people
away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD
had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
2 Chronicles 7:11
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all
that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own
house, he prosperously effected.
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12 ¶ And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard
thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
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13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to
devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
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14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray,
and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer [that is
made] in this place.
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16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there
for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles 7:17
17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and
do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes
and my judgments;
2 Chronicles 7:18
18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have
covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man [to
be] ruler in Israel.
2 Chronicles 7:19
19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I
have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
2 Chronicles 7:20
20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my
sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.
2 Chronicles 7:21
21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that
passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land,
and unto this house?
2 Chronicles 7:22
22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers,
which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods,
and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil
upon them.
Chapter 8
2 Chronicles 8:1
1 ¶ AND it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built
the house of the LORD, and his own house,
2 Chronicles 8:2
2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and
caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2 Chronicles 8:3
3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
2 Chronicles 8:4
4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he
built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles 8:5
5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities,
with walls, gates, and bars;
2 Chronicles 8:6
6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot
cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in
Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
2 Chronicles 8:7
7 [As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which [were] not of
Israel,
2 Chronicles 8:8
8 [But] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this
day.
2 Chronicles 8:9
9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but
they [were] men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots
and horsemen.
2 Chronicles 8:10
10 And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers, [even] two hundred and
fifty, that bare rule over the people.
2 Chronicles 8:11
11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto
the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the
house of David king of Israel, because [the places are] holy, whereunto the ark
of the LORD hath come.
2 Chronicles 8:12
12 ¶ Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the
LORD, which he had built before the porch,
2 Chronicles 8:13
13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of
Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three
times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
2 Chronicles 8:14
14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of
the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and
minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also
by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
2 Chronicles 8:15
15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and
Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
2 Chronicles 8:16
16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of
the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was
perfected.
2 Chronicles 8:17
17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land
of Edom.
2 Chronicles 8:18
18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had
knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and
took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king
Solomon.
Chapter 9
2 Chronicles 9:1
1 ¶ AND when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove
Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels
that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was
come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
2 Chronicles 9:2
2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon
which he told her not.
2 Chronicles 9:3
3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that
he had built,
2 Chronicles 9:4
4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance
of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and
his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her.
2 Chronicles 9:5
5 And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I heard in mine own
land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
2 Chronicles 9:6
6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen [it]:
and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: [for]
thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
2 Chronicles 9:7
7 Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:8
8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his
throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to
establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment
and justice.
2 Chronicles 9:9
9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices
great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the
queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:10
10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought
gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
2 Chronicles 9:11
11 And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and
to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none
such seen before in the land of Judah.
2 Chronicles 9:12
12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she
asked, beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and
went away to her own land, she and her servants.
2 Chronicles 9:13
13 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and
threescore and six talents of gold;
2 Chronicles 9:14
14 Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of
Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:15
15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred
[shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.
2 Chronicles 9:16
16 And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels]
of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of
Lebanon.
2 Chronicles 9:17
17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure
gold.
2 Chronicles 9:18
18 And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which
were] fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and
two lions standing by the stays:
2 Chronicles 9:19
19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six
steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
2 Chronicles 9:20
20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of] gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold: none [were
of] silver; it was [not] any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:21
21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three
years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and
apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 9:22
22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:23
23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his
wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
2 Chronicles 9:24
24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of
gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
2 Chronicles 9:25
25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:26
26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the
Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 9:27
27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as
the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.
2 Chronicles 9:28
28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
2 Chronicles 9:29
29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written
in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite,
and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
2 Chronicles 9:30
30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2 Chronicles 9:31
31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David
his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 10
2 Chronicles 10:1
1 ¶ AND Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make
him king.
2 Chronicles 10:2
2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who [was] in Egypt,
whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard [it], that
Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 10:3
3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to
Rehoboam, saying,
2 Chronicles 10:4
4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the
grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we
will serve thee.
2 Chronicles 10:5
5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people
departed.
2 Chronicles 10:6
6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon
his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye [me] to return
answer to this people?
2 Chronicles 10:7
7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please
them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
2 Chronicles 10:8
8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with
the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
2 Chronicles 10:9
9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this
people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father
did put upon us?
2 Chronicles 10:10
10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus
shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our
yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto
them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles 10:11
11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your
yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with
scorpions.
2 Chronicles 10:12
12 ¶ So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the
king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
2 Chronicles 10:13
13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of
the old men,
2 Chronicles 10:14
14 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made
your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but
I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
2 Chronicles 10:15
15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the
LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite
to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 10:16
16 And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken unto them, the
people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and [we have]
none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and]
now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
2 Chronicles 10:17
17 But [as for] the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah,
Rehoboam reigned over them.
2 Chronicles 10:18
18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the tribute; and the children
of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to
get him up to [his] chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 10:19
19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
Chapter 11
2 Chronicles 11:1
1 ¶ AND when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah
and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were
warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to
Rehoboam.
2 Chronicles 11:2
2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2 Chronicles 11:3
3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in
Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2 Chronicles 11:4
4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren:
return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the
words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 11:5
5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
2 Chronicles 11:6
6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
2 Chronicles 11:7
7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
2 Chronicles 11:8
8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2 Chronicles 11:9
9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2 Chronicles 11:10
10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which [are] in Judah and in Benjamin
fenced cities.
2 Chronicles 11:11
11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of
victual, and of oil and wine.
2 Chronicles 11:12
12 And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them
exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
2 Chronicles 11:13
13 ¶ And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all Israel resorted to him
out of all their coasts.
2 Chronicles 11:14
14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah
and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the
priest's office unto the LORD:
2 Chronicles 11:15
15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for
the calves which he had made.
2 Chronicles 11:16
16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to
seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of
their fathers.
2 Chronicles 11:17
17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of
Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and
Solomon.
2 Chronicles 11:18
18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to
wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2 Chronicles 11:19
19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
2 Chronicles 11:20
20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah,
and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
2 Chronicles 11:21
21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and
his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and
begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
2 Chronicles 11:22
22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, [to be] ruler among
his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king.
2 Chronicles 11:23
23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the
countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them
victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
Chapter 12
2 Chronicles 12:1
1 ¶ AND it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had
strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
2 Chronicles 12:2
2 And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of
Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
2 Chronicles 12:3
3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people
[were] without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims,
and the Ethiopians.
2 Chronicles 12:4
4 And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 12:5
5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah,
that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them,
Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in
the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:6
6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they
said, The LORD [is] righteous.
2 Chronicles 12:7
7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came
to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not
destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be
poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:8
8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and
the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
2 Chronicles 12:9
9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he
took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 12:10
10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed [them] to
the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.
2 Chronicles 12:11
11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and
fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
2 Chronicles 12:12
12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he
would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
2 Chronicles 12:13
13 ¶ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for
Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an
Ammonitess.
2 Chronicles 12:14
14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
2 Chronicles 12:15
15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they not written in the book
of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And [there
were] wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
2 Chronicles 12:16
16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and
Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 13
2 Chronicles 13:1
1 ¶ NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over
Judah.
2 Chronicles 13:2
2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Michaiah the
daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 13:3
3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, [even]
four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against
him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles 13:4
4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in mount Ephraim, and
said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
2 Chronicles 13:5
5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel
to David for ever, [even] to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chronicles 13:6
6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is
risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
2 Chronicles 13:7
7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have
strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was
young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
2 Chronicles 13:8
8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons
of David; and ye [be] a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves,
which Jeroboam made you for gods.
2 Chronicles 13:9
9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the
Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of [other]
lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and
seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.
2 Chronicles 13:10
10 But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the
priests, which minister unto the LORD, [are] the sons of Aaron, and the Levites
[wait] upon [their] business:
2 Chronicles 13:11
11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices
and sweet incense: the shewbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table;
and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for
we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
2 Chronicles 13:12
12 And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with
sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not
against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
2 Chronicles 13:13
13 ¶ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were
before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them.
2 Chronicles 13:14
14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was] before and behind: and
they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 13:15
15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came
to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
2 Chronicles 13:16
16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into
their hand.
2 Chronicles 13:17
17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell
down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2 Chronicles 13:18
18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children
of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 13:19
19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the
towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns
thereof.
2 Chronicles 13:20
20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the
LORD struck him, and he died.
2 Chronicles 13:21
21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two
sons, and sixteen daughters.
2 Chronicles 13:22
22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, [are]
written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
Chapter 14
2 Chronicles 14:1
1 ¶ SO Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David:
and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
2 Chronicles 14:2
2 And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
2 Chronicles 14:3
3 For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and
brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles 14:4
4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law
and the commandment.
2 Chronicles 14:5
5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the
images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
2 Chronicles 14:6
6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war
in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
2 Chronicles 14:7
7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them]
walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet before us; because
we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest
on every side. So they built and prospered.
2 Chronicles 14:8
8 And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three
hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two
hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles 14:9
9 ¶ And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a
thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
2 Chronicles 14:10
10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley
of Zephathah at Mareshah.
2 Chronicles 14:11
11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with
thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O
LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude.
O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man prevail against thee.
2 Chronicles 14:12
12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the
Ethiopians fled.
2 Chronicles 14:13
13 And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the
Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they
were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very
much spoil.
2 Chronicles 14:14
14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD
came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much
spoil in them.
2 Chronicles 14:15
15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in
abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
Chapter 15
2 Chronicles 15:1
1 ¶ AND the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
2 Chronicles 15:2
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah
and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him,
he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:3
3 Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a
teaching priest, and without law.
2 Chronicles 15:4
4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and
sought him, he was found of them.
2 Chronicles 15:5
5 And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that
came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
2 Chronicles 15:6
6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them
with all adversity.
2 Chronicles 15:7
7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be
rewarded.
2 Chronicles 15:8
8 ¶ And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he
took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and
Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and
renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 15:9
9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in
abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God [was] with him.
2 Chronicles 15:10
10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the
fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
2 Chronicles 15:11
11 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil [which] they had
brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles 15:12
12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with
all their heart and with all their soul;
2 Chronicles 15:13
13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death,
whether small or great, whether man or woman.
2 Chronicles 15:14
14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with
trumpets, and with cornets.
2 Chronicles 15:15
15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart,
and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD
gave them rest round about.
2 Chronicles 15:16
16 And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from
[being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her
idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 15:17
17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart
of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chronicles 15:18
18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had
dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
2 Chronicles 15:19
19 And there was no [more] war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of
Asa.
Chapter 16
2 Chronicles 16:1
1 ¶ IN the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came
up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out
or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 16:2
2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the
LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at
Damascus, saying,
2 Chronicles 16:3
3 [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was] between my father and
thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with
Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
2 Chronicles 16:4
4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies
against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and
all the store cities of Naphtali.
2 Chronicles 16:5
5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he left off building of
Ramah, and let his work cease.
2 Chronicles 16:6
6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah,
and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith
Geba and Mizpah.
2 Chronicles 16:7
7 ¶ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto
him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD
thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
2 Chronicles 16:8
8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots
and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into
thine hand.
2 Chronicles 16:9
9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew
himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him.
Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
2 Chronicles 16:10
10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was]
in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the
people the same time.
2 Chronicles 16:11
11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they [are] written in the
book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 16:12
12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet,
until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to
the LORD, but to the physicians.
2 Chronicles 16:13
13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his
reign.
2 Chronicles 16:14
14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in
the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours
and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a
very great burning for him.
Chapter 17
2 Chronicles 17:1
1 ¶ AND Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself
against Israel.
2 Chronicles 17:2
2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in
the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
2 Chronicles 17:3
3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his
father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles 17:4
4 But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments,
and not after the doings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 17:5
5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought
to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.
2 Chronicles 17:6
6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the
high places and groves out of Judah.
2 Chronicles 17:7
7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Benhail,
and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in
the cities of Judah.
2 Chronicles 17:8
8 And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah,
and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and
Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
2 Chronicles 17:9
9 And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law of the LORD with them,
and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
2 Chronicles 17:10
10 ¶ And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that
[were] round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 17:11
11 Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute
silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred
rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
2 Chronicles 17:12
12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and
cities of store.
2 Chronicles 17:13
13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty
men of valour, [were] in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 17:14
14 And these [are] the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers:
Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of
valour three hundred thousand.
2 Chronicles 17:15
15 And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and
fourscore thousand.
2 Chronicles 17:16
16 And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself
unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles 17:17
17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with
bow and shield two hundred thousand.
2 Chronicles 17:18
18 And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand
ready prepared for the war.
2 Chronicles 17:19
19 These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king put in the fenced
cities throughout all Judah.
Chapter 18
2 Chronicles 18:1
1 ¶ NOW Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with
Ahab.
2 Chronicles 18:2
2 And after [certain] years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed
sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that [he had] with him,
and persuaded him to go up [with him] to Ramothgilead.
2 Chronicles 18:3
3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with
me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I [am] as thou [art], and my people as
thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the war.
2 Chronicles 18:4
4 ¶ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the
word of the LORD to day.
2 Chronicles 18:5
5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men,
and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.
2 Chronicles 18:6
6 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that
we might enquire of him?
2 Chronicles 18:7
7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, by whom
we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto
me, but always evil: the same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat
said, Let not the king say so.
2 Chronicles 18:8
8 And the king of Israel called for one [of his] officers, and said, Fetch
quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
2 Chronicles 18:9
9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his
throne, clothed in [their] robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering
in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
2 Chronicles 18:10
10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus
saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
2 Chronicles 18:11
11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and
prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
2 Chronicles 18:12
12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the
words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one assent; let thy word
therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.
2 Chronicles 18:13
13 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I
speak.
2 Chronicles 18:14
14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we
go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and
prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.
2 Chronicles 18:15
15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say
nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
2 Chronicles 18:16
16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep
that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return
[therefore] every man to his house in peace.
2 Chronicles 18:17
17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee [that] he
would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
2 Chronicles 18:18
18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting
upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and [on]
his left.
2 Chronicles 18:19
19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up
and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another
saying after that manner.
2 Chronicles 18:20
20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will
entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
2 Chronicles 18:21
21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice [him], and thou shalt also
prevail: go out, and do [even] so.
2 Chronicles 18:22
22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these
thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
2 Chronicles 18:23
23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the
cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto
thee?
2 Chronicles 18:24
24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into
an inner chamber to hide thyself.
2 Chronicles 18:25
25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the
governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
2 Chronicles 18:26
26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him
with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
2 Chronicles 18:27
27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, [then] hath not the LORD
spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
2 Chronicles 18:28
28 ¶ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to
Ramothgilead.
2 Chronicles 18:29
29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and
will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel
disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
2 Chronicles 18:30
30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that [were]
with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of
Israel.
2 Chronicles 18:31
31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that
they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to
fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them
[to depart] from him.
2 Chronicles 18:32
32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that
it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.
2 Chronicles 18:33
33 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel
between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn
thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
2 Chronicles 18:34
34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed
[himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the
time of the sun going down he died.
Chapter 19
2 Chronicles 19:1
1 ¶ AND Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:2
2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king
Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD?
therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
2 Chronicles 19:3
3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away
the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
2 Chronicles 19:4
4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people
from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of
their fathers.
2 Chronicles 19:5
5 ¶ And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah,
city by city,
2 Chronicles 19:6
6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but
for the LORD, who [is] with you in the judgment.
2 Chronicles 19:7
7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for
[there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking
of gifts.
2 Chronicles 19:8
8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and [of] the
priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the
LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:9
9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD,
faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 19:10
10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their
cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and
judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and
[so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not
trespass.
2 Chronicles 19:11
11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the
LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all
the king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers before you. Deal
courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
Chapter 20
2 Chronicles 20:1
1 ¶ IT came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the
children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the Ammonites, came against
Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Chronicles 20:2
2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great
multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they
[be] in Hazazontamar, which [is] Engedi.
2 Chronicles 20:3
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a
fast throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles 20:4
4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of the LORD: even out of
all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
2 Chronicles 20:5
5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house
of the LORD, before the new court,
2 Chronicles 20:6
6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God in heaven? and rulest
[not] thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand [is there
not] power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
2 Chronicles 20:7
7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land
before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for
ever?
2 Chronicles 20:8
8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name,
saying,
2 Chronicles 20:9
9 If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or
famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in
this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
2 Chronicles 20:10
10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou
wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but
they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
2 Chronicles 20:11
11 Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy
possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles 20:12
12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great
company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes [are]
upon thee.
2 Chronicles 20:13
13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and
their children.
2 Chronicles 20:14
14 ¶ Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of
Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of
the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
2 Chronicles 20:15
15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou
king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by
reason of this great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's.
2 Chronicles 20:16
16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz;
and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles 20:17
17 Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand ye
[still], and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear
not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with
you.
2 Chronicles 20:18
18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
2 Chronicles 20:19
19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of
the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on
high.
2 Chronicles 20:20
20 ¶ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of
Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and
ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be
established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
2 Chronicles 20:21
21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the
LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the
army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
2 Chronicles 20:22
22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against
the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and
they were smitten.
2 Chronicles 20:23
23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount
Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the
inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
2 Chronicles 20:24
24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked
unto the multitude, and, behold, they [were] dead bodies fallen to the earth,
and none escaped.
2 Chronicles 20:25
25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they
found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious
jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away:
and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
2 Chronicles 20:26
26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah;
for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was
called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
2 Chronicles 20:27
27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the
forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them
to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles 20:28
28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the
house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 20:29
29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they
had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:30
30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
2 Chronicles 20:31
31 ¶ And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty and five years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles 20:32
32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing
[that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 20:33
33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not
prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 20:34
34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they [are]
written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who [is] mentioned in the book of
the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:35
35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king
of Israel, who did very wickedly:
2 Chronicles 20:36
36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made
the ships in Ezion-geber.
2 Chronicles 20:37
37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat,
saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy
works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Chapter 21
2 Chronicles 21:1
1 ¶ NOW Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 21:2
2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and
Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these [were] the sons
of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 21:3
3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious
things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because
he [was] the firstborn.
2 Chronicles 21:4
4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened
himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and [divers] also of the
princes of Israel.
2 Chronicles 21:5
5 Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 21:6
6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of
Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought [that which was]
evil in the eyes of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 21:7
7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant
that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to
his sons for ever.
2 Chronicles 21:8
8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made
themselves a king.
2 Chronicles 21:9
9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and
he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the
captains of the chariots.
2 Chronicles 21:10
10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same
time [also] did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the
LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 21:11
11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].
2 Chronicles 21:12
12 ¶ And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith
the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of
Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles 21:13
13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house
of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were]
better than thyself:
2 Chronicles 21:14
14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children,
and thy wives, and all thy goods:
2 Chronicles 21:15
15 And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy
bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
2 Chronicles 21:16
16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines,
and of the Arabians, that [were] near the Ethiopians:
2 Chronicles 21:17
17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the
substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives;
so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
2 Chronicles 21:18
18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable
disease.
2 Chronicles 21:19
19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his
bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his
people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 21:20
20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried
him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
Chapter 22
2 Chronicles 22:1
1 ¶ AND the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his
stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all
the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Chronicles 22:2
2 Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Athaliah the daughter of
Omri.
2 Chronicles 22:3
3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his
counsellor to do wickedly.
2 Chronicles 22:4
4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for
they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 22:5
5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king
of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians
smote Joram.
2 Chronicles 22:6
6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given
him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel,
because he was sick.
2 Chronicles 22:7
7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was
come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had
anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
2 Chronicles 22:8
8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of
Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah,
that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
2 Chronicles 22:9
9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and
brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said
they, he [is] the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So
the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 22:10
10 ¶ But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she
arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles 22:11
11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah,
and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his
nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife
of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from
Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
2 Chronicles 22:12
12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned
over the land.
Chapter 23
2 Chronicles 23:1
1 ¶ AND in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains
of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and
Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son
of Zichri, into covenant with him.
2 Chronicles 23:2
2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities
of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 23:3
3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God.
And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said
of the sons of David.
2 Chronicles 23:4
4 This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the
sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, [shall be] porters of the doors;
2 Chronicles 23:5
5 And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a third part at the gate
of the foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of
the LORD.
2 Chronicles 23:6
6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that
minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they [are] holy: but all the
people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 23:7
7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons
in his hand; and whosoever [else] cometh into the house, he shall be put to
death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
2 Chronicles 23:8
8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the
priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the
sabbath, with them that were to go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest
dismissed not the courses.
2 Chronicles 23:9
9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and
bucklers, and shields, that [had been] king David's, which [were] in the house
of God.
2 Chronicles 23:10
10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the
right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and
the temple, by the king round about.
2 Chronicles 23:11
11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and [gave
him] the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him,
and said, God save the king.
2 Chronicles 23:12
12 ¶ Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the
king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
2 Chronicles 23:13
13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in,
and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of
musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and
said, Treason, Treason.
2 Chronicles 23:14
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set
over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso
followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her
not in the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 23:15
15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse
gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
2 Chronicles 23:16
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and
between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
2 Chronicles 23:17
17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake
his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
the altars.
2 Chronicles 23:18
18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of
the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to
offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as [it is] written in the law of Moses,
with rejoicing and with singing, [as it was ordained] by David.
2 Chronicles 23:19
19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none
[which was] unclean in any thing should enter in.
2 Chronicles 23:20
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of
the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the
house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house,
and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 23:21
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that
they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
Chapter 24
2 Chronicles 24:1
1 ¶ JOASH [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty
years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Chronicles 24:2
2 And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all the days of
Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles 24:3
3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 24:4
4 And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded to repair the house of
the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:5
5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out
unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of
your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the
Levites hastened [it] not.
2 Chronicles 24:6
6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou
not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the
collection, [according to the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and
of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
2 Chronicles 24:7
7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God;
and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon
Baalim.
2 Chronicles 24:8
8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the
gate of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:9
9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the
LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of God [laid] upon Israel in the
wilderness.
2 Chronicles 24:10
10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast
into the chest, until they had made an end.
2 Chronicles 24:11
11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's
office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that [there was] much
money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the
chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day,
and gathered money in abundance.
2 Chronicles 24:12
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of
the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of
the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:13
13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the
house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
2 Chronicles 24:14
14 And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before
the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD,
[even] vessels to minister, and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of
gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD
continually all the days of Jehoiada.
2 Chronicles 24:15
15 ¶ But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and
thirty years old [was he] when he died.
2 Chronicles 24:16
16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done
good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
2 Chronicles 24:17
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance
to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
2 Chronicles 24:18
18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves
and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
2 Chronicles 24:19
19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they
testified against them: but they would not give ear.
2 Chronicles 24:20
20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest,
which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress
ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have
forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
2 Chronicles 24:21
21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment
of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:22
22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had
done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon
[it], and require [it].
2 Chronicles 24:23
23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the host of Syria came up
against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes
of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the
king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles 24:24
24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD
delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD
God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
2 Chronicles 24:25
25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,)
his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the
priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of
David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 24:26
26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an
Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
2 Chronicles 24:27
27 Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him,
and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they [are] written in the story
of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 25
2 Chronicles 25:1
1 ¶ AMAZIAH [was] twenty and five years old [when] he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 25:2
2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a
perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 25:3
3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his
servants that had killed the king his father.
2 Chronicles 25:4
4 But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the
book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for
the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man
shall die for his own sin.
2 Chronicles 25:5
5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their]
fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty
years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to
go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
2 Chronicles 25:6
6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an
hundred talents of silver.
2 Chronicles 25:7
7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel
go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children
of Ephraim.
2 Chronicles 25:8
8 But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God shall make thee
fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
2 Chronicles 25:9
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred
talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered,
The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
2 Chronicles 25:10
10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that was come to him out of
Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against
Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
2 Chronicles 25:11
11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the
valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
2 Chronicles 25:12
12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Judah carry away
captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the
top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
2 Chronicles 25:13
13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go
with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto
Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
2 Chronicles 25:14
14 ¶ Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the
Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up [to
be] his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
2 Chronicles 25:15
15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto
him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the
people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
2 Chronicles 25:16
16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said unto him,
Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten?
Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy
thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
2 Chronicles 25:17
17 ¶ Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of
Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another
in the face.
2 Chronicles 25:18
18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle
that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy
daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in
Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Chronicles 25:19
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee
up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to [thine] hurt, that
thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?
2 Chronicles 25:20
20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] of God, that he might deliver them
into the hand [of their enemies], because they sought after the gods of Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:21
21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face,
[both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
2 Chronicles 25:22
22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his
tent.
2 Chronicles 25:23
23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash,
the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake
down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four
hundred cubits.
2 Chronicles 25:24
24 And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were
found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house,
the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 25:25
25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son
of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Chronicles 25:26
26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, [are] they not
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2 Chronicles 25:27
27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they
made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they
sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
2 Chronicles 25:28
28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city
of Judah.
Chapter 26
2 Chronicles 26:1
1 ¶ THEN all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years old, and
made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 26:2
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his
fathers.
2 Chronicles 26:3
3 Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty
and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 26:4
4 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father Amaziah did.
2 Chronicles 26:5
5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the
visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
2 Chronicles 26:6
6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall
of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about
Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles 26:7
7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that
dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
2 Chronicles 26:8
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad [even] to
the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened [himself] exceedingly.
2 Chronicles 26:9
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the
valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them.
2 Chronicles 26:10
10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much
cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine
dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
2 Chronicles 26:11
11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands,
according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and
Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, [one] of the king's captains.
2 Chronicles 26:12
12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour
[were] two thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles 26:13
13 And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand
and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the
enemy.
2 Chronicles 26:14
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and
helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.
2 Chronicles 26:15
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the
towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his
name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
2 Chronicles 26:16
16 ¶ But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for
he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD
to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:17
17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of
the LORD, [that were] valiant men:
2 Chronicles 26:18
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, [It appertaineth] not
unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of
Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for thine honour from the LORD God.
2 Chronicles 26:19
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand to burn incense: and
while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead
before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 26:20
20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and,
behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence;
yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
2 Chronicles 26:21
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a
several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD:
and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 26:22
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amoz, write.
2 Chronicles 26:23
23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the
field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings; for they said, He [is] a
leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 27
2 Chronicles 27:1
1 ¶ JOTHAM [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the
daughter of Zadok.
2 Chronicles 27:2
2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD.
And the people did yet corruptly.
2 Chronicles 27:3
3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he
built much.
2 Chronicles 27:4
4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he
built castles and towers.
2 Chronicles 27:5
5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And
the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and
ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the
children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
2 Chronicles 27:6
6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 27:7
7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they
[are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles 27:8
8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 27:9
9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David:
and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 28
2 Chronicles 28:1
1 ¶ AHAZ [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, like David his father:
2 Chronicles 28:2
2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images
for Baalim.
2 Chronicles 28:3
3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his
children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had
cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:4
4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and
under every green tree.
2 Chronicles 28:5
5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria;
and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and
brought [them] to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king
of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
2 Chronicles 28:6
6 ¶ For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand
in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God
of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:7
7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam
the governor of the house, and Elkanah [that was] next to the king.
2 Chronicles 28:8
8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred
thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them,
and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:9
9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out
before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the
LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your
hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.
2 Chronicles 28:10
10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for
bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you,
sins against the LORD your God?
2 Chronicles 28:11
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken
captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD [is] upon you.
2 Chronicles 28:12
12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of
Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum,
and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
2 Chronicles 28:13
13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we
have offended against the LORD [already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins
and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath
against Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:14
14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all
the congregation.
2 Chronicles 28:15
15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and
with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and
shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all
the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:16
16 ¶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles 28:17
17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
2 Chronicles 28:18
18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the
south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho
with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and
the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
2 Chronicles 28:19
19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made
Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
2 Chronicles 28:20
20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but
strengthened him not.
2 Chronicles 28:21
21 For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the LORD, and [out] of the
house of the king, and of the princes, and gave [it] unto the king of Assyria:
but he helped him not.
2 Chronicles 28:22
22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD:
this [is that] king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles 28:23
23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said,
Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice
to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all
Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:24
24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces
the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD,
and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 28:25
25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto
other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:26
26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they
[are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:27
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in
Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel:
and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 29
2 Chronicles 29:1
1 ¶ HEZEKIAH began to reign [when he was] five and twenty years old, and he
reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Abijah,
the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Chronicles 29:2
2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that David his father had done.
2 Chronicles 29:3
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the
house of the LORD, and repaired them.
2 Chronicles 29:4
4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into
the east street,
2 Chronicles 29:5
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify
the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of
the holy [place].
2 Chronicles 29:6
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which was] evil in the eyes of
the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from
the habitation of the LORD, and turned [their] backs.
2 Chronicles 29:7
7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have
not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy [place] unto the God
of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:8
8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath
delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your
eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:9
9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters
and our wives [are] in captivity for this.
2 Chronicles 29:10
10 Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel,
that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 29:11
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before
him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
2 Chronicles 29:12
12 ¶ Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of
Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son
of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son
of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
2 Chronicles 29:13
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph;
Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
2 Chronicles 29:14
14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun;
Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
2 Chronicles 29:15
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came,
according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse
the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:16
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse
[it], and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the
LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to
carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 29:17
17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the
eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified
the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.
2 Chronicles 29:18
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the
house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels
thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles 29:19
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his
transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before
the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:20
20 ¶ Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and
went up to the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:21
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven
he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for
Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the
altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:22
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and
sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:23
23 And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin offering before the king
and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
2 Chronicles 29:24
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood
upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded
[that] the burnt offering and the sin offering [should be made] for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:25
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with
psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad
the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the
LORD by his prophets.
2 Chronicles 29:26
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the
trumpets.
2 Chronicles 29:27
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when
the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began [also] with the trumpets,
and with the instruments [ordained] by David king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:28
28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters
sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt offering was finished.
2 Chronicles 29:29
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present
with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
2 Chronicles 29:30
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing
praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they
sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
2 Chronicles 29:31
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the
LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the
LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as
many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
2 Chronicles 29:32
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was
threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these
[were] for a burnt offering to the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:33
33 And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles 29:34
34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt
offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was
ended, and until the [other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites
[were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles 29:35
35 And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance, with the fat of the peace
offerings, and the drink offerings for [every] burnt offering. So the service of
the house of the LORD was set in order.
2 Chronicles 29:36
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people:
for the thing was [done] suddenly.
Chapter 30
2 Chronicles 30:1
1 ¶ AND Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim
and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to
keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:2
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in
Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2 Chronicles 30:3
3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not
sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves
together to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:4
4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
2 Chronicles 30:5
5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from
Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD
God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such
sort] as it was written.
2 Chronicles 30:6
6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout
all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye
children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,
and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of
the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:7
7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed
against the LORD God of their fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to
desolation, as ye see.
2 Chronicles 30:8
8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto
the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and
serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from
you.
2 Chronicles 30:9
9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall
find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come
again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will
not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.
2 Chronicles 30:10
10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and
Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
2 Chronicles 30:11
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves,
and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:12
12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the
commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:13
13 ¶ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of
unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
2 Chronicles 30:14
14 And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in Jerusalem, and all the
altars for incense took they away, and cast [them] into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 30:15
15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month:
and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and
brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:16
16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of
Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, [which they received] of
the hand of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 30:17
17 For [there were] many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore
the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one [that
was] not clean, to sanctify [them] unto the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:18
18 For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh,
Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the
passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying,
The good LORD pardon every one
2 Chronicles 30:19
19 [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though
[he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
2 Chronicles 30:20
20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
2 Chronicles 30:21
21 ¶ And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of
unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests
praised the LORD day by day, [singing] with loud instruments unto the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:22
22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good
knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days,
offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their
fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:23
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept
[other] seven days with gladness.
2 Chronicles 30:24
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks
and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand
bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified
themselves.
2 Chronicles 30:25
25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all
the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the
land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
2 Chronicles 30:26
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of
David king of Israel [there was] not the like in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:27
27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice
was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto
heaven.
Chapter 31
2 Chronicles 31:1
1 ¶ NOW when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the
cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and
threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in
Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all
the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own
cities.
2 Chronicles 31:2
2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their
courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt
offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to
praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 31:3
3 [He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt
offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt
offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as
[it is] written in the law of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 31:4
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion
of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the
LORD.
2 Chronicles 31:5
5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in
abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the
increase of the field; and the tithe of all [things] brought they in abundantly.
2 Chronicles 31:6
6 And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of
Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy
things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps.
2 Chronicles 31:7
7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished
[them] in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 31:8
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the
LORD, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 31:9
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the
heaps.
2 Chronicles 31:10
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said,
Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we
have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his
people; and that which is left [is] this great store.
2 Chronicles 31:11
11 ¶ Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and
they prepared [them],
2 Chronicles 31:12
12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated [things]
faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite [was] ruler, and Shimei his brother
[was] the next.
2 Chronicles 31:13
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,
and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, [were] overseers under the
hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the
king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
2 Chronicles 31:14
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, [was] over
the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the
most holy things.
2 Chronicles 31:15
15 And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah,
and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to
their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
2 Chronicles 31:16
16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, [even] unto
every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their
service in their charges according to their courses;
2 Chronicles 31:17
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the
Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
2 Chronicles 31:18
18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons,
and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they
sanctified themselves in holiness:
2 Chronicles 31:19
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [which were] in the fields of the
suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by
name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were
reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
2 Chronicles 31:20
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought [that which was] good
and right and truth before the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 31:21
21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in
the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did [it] with all his
heart, and prospered.
Chapter 32
2 Chronicles 32:1
1 ¶ AFTER these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of
Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities,
and thought to win them for himself.
2 Chronicles 32:2
2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to
fight against Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles 32:3
3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the
fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him.
2 Chronicles 32:4
4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and
the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings
of Assyria come, and find much water?
2 Chronicles 32:5
5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and
raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in]
the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
2 Chronicles 32:6
6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him
in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
2 Chronicles 32:7
7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria,
nor for all the multitude that [is] with him: for [there be] more with us than
with him:
2 Chronicles 32:8
8 With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD our God to help us,
and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of
Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:9
9 ¶ After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem,
(but he [himself laid siege] against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto
Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,
2 Chronicles 32:10
10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in
the siege in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles 32:11
11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and
by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king
of Assyria?
2 Chronicles 32:12
12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and
commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and
burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles 32:13
13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of [other]
lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver
their lands out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles 32:14
14 Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly
destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should
be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles 32:15
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner,
neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver
his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less
shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles 32:16
16 And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God, and against his
servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:17
17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against
him, saying, As the gods of the nations of [other] lands have not delivered
their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his
people out of mine hand.
2 Chronicles 32:18
18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of
Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that
they might take the city.
2 Chronicles 32:19
19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the
people of the earth, [which were] the work of the hands of man.
2 Chronicles 32:20
20 And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of
Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
2 Chronicles 32:21
21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and
the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with
shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god,
they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
2 Chronicles 32:22
22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand
of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [other], and guided
them on every side.
2 Chronicles 32:23
23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah
king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from
thenceforth.
2 Chronicles 32:24
24 ¶ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and
he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
2 Chronicles 32:25
25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit [done] unto him; for
his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26
26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both]
he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon
them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:27
27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself
treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices,
and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
2 Chronicles 32:28
28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for
all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
2 Chronicles 32:29
29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in
abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
2 Chronicles 32:30
30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought
it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered
in all his works.
2 Chronicles 32:31
31 Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who
sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God left
him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.
2 Chronicles 32:32
32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they [are]
written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, [and] in the book
of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:33
33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of
the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his
stead.
Chapter 33
2 Chronicles 33:1
1 ¶ MANASSEH [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty
and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles 33:2
2 But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:3
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down,
and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host
of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles 33:4
4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In
Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:5
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house
of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 33:6
6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son
of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft,
and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:7
7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of
which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my
name for ever:
2 Chronicles 33:8
8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I
have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I
have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the
ordinances by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles 33:9
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, [and] to do
worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of
Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:10
10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not
hearken.
2 Chronicles 33:11
11 ¶ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king
of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters,
and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:12
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:13
13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication,
and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the
LORD he [was] God.
2 Chronicles 33:14
14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of
Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed
about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in
all the fenced cities of Judah.
2 Chronicles 33:15
15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD,
and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and
in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out of the city.
2 Chronicles 33:16
16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings
and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:17
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto
the LORD their God only.
2 Chronicles 33:18
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the
words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel,
behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:19
19 His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his
trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and
graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the
sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles 33:20
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 33:21
21 ¶ Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two
years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:22
22 But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh
his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his
father had made, and served them;
2 Chronicles 33:23
23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled
himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
2 Chronicles 33:24
24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
2 Chronicles 33:25
25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king
Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Chapter 34
2 Chronicles 34:1
1 ¶ JOSIAH [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2 Chronicles 34:2
2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the
ways of David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the
left.
2 Chronicles 34:3
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek
after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge
Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images,
and the molten images.
2 Chronicles 34:4
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that
[were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images,
and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed
[it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
2 Chronicles 34:5
5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah
and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:6
6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto
Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
2 Chronicles 34:7
7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the
graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of
Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:8
8 ¶ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and
the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the
city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD
his God.
2 Chronicles 34:9
9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that
was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had
gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel,
and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:10
10 And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of
the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
2 Chronicles 34:11
11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and
timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had
destroyed.
2 Chronicles 34:12
12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath
and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of
the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all
that could skill of instruments of musick.
2 Chronicles 34:13
13 Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all
that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were]
scribes, and officers, and porters.
2 Chronicles 34:14
14 ¶ And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the
LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD [given] by Moses.
2 Chronicles 34:15
15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of
the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles 34:16
16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back
again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do [it].
2 Chronicles 34:17
17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the
LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of
the workmen.
2 Chronicles 34:18
18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given
me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
2 Chronicles 34:19
19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he
rent his clothes.
2 Chronicles 34:20
20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the
son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's,
saying,
2 Chronicles 34:21
21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in
Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath
of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the
word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
2 Chronicles 34:22
22 And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of
the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her
to that [effect].
2 Chronicles 34:23
23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man
that sent you to me,
2 Chronicles 34:24
24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants thereof, [even] all the curses that are written in the book which
they have read before the king of Judah:
2 Chronicles 34:25
25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that
they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my
wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Chronicles 34:26
26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall
ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel [concerning] the words which
thou hast heard;
2 Chronicles 34:27
27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God,
when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants
thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep
before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles 34:28
28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy
grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon
this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word
again.
2 Chronicles 34:29
29 ¶ Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:30
30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the
people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of
the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 34:31
31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk
after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his
statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the
covenant which are written in this book.
2 Chronicles 34:32
32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to
it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the
God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:33
33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that
[pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel
to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed
not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Chapter 35
2 Chronicles 35:1
1 ¶ MOREOVER Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed
the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
2 Chronicles 35:2
2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of
the house of the LORD,
2 Chronicles 35:3
3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the
LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of
Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now
the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
2 Chronicles 35:4
4 And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers, after your courses,
according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing
of Solomon his son.
2 Chronicles 35:5
5 And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions of the families of
the fathers of your brethren the people, and [after] the division of the
families of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 35:6
6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that
[they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles 35:7
7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the
passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand,
and three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the king's substance.
2 Chronicles 35:8
8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the
Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto
the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small
cattle], and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:9
9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and
Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover
offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:10
10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the
Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
2 Chronicles 35:11
11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from
their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
2 Chronicles 35:12
12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the
divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as [it is]
written in the book of Moses. And so [did they] with the oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:13
13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the
[other] holy [offerings] sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and
divided [them] speedily among all the people.
2 Chronicles 35:14
14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because
the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering of burnt offerings and
the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
priests the sons of Aaron.
2 Chronicles 35:15
15 And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and
the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not depart from their service;
for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
2 Chronicles 35:16
16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the
passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to
the commandment of king Josiah.
2 Chronicles 35:17
17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time,
and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
2 Chronicles 35:18
18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel
the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah
kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were
present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 35:19
19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
2 Chronicles 35:20
20 ¶ After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt
came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against
him.
2 Chronicles 35:21
21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou
king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this day, but against the house
wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from
[meddling with] God, who [is] with me, that he destroy thee not.
2 Chronicles 35:22
22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself,
that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the
mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles 35:23
23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have
me away; for I am sore wounded.
2 Chronicles 35:24
24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the
second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and
was buried in [one of] the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and
Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
2 Chronicles 35:25
25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing
women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an
ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 35:26
26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to [that
which was] written in the law of the LORD,
2 Chronicles 35:27
27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah.
Chapter 36
2 Chronicles 36:1
1 ¶ THEN the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him
king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:2
2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:3
3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an
hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Chronicles 36:4
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem,
and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and
carried him to Egypt.
2 Chronicles 36:5
5 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight
of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 36:6
6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters,
to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:7
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:8
8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and
that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings
of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 36:9
9 Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three
months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight
of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:10
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to
Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his
brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:11
11 ¶ Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:12
12 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God, [and]
humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the
LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:13
13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by
God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the
LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:14
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much
after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD
which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:15
15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up
betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his
dwelling place:
2 Chronicles 36:16
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused
his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there
was] no remedy.
2 Chronicles 36:17
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young
men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon
young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all
into his hand.
2 Chronicles 36:18
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures
of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all
[these] he brought to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:19
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and
burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels
thereof.
2 Chronicles 36:20
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where
they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
2 Chronicles 36:21
21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had
enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to
fulfil threescore and ten years.
2 Chronicles 36:22
22 ¶ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD
[spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the
spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
2 Chronicles 36:23
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD
God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in
Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The
LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.
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